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Anti-Corn Law League
The Anti-Corn Law League was a successful political movement in Great Britain aimed at the abolition of the unpopular Corn Laws, which protected landowners’ interests by levying taxes on imported wheat, thus raising the price of bread at a time when factory-owners were trying to cut wages. The League was a middle-class nationwide organisation that held many well-attended rallies on the premise that a crusade was needed to convince parliament to repeal the corn laws. Its long-term goals included the removal of feudal privileges, which it denounced as impeding progress, lowering economic well-being, and restricting freedom. The League played little role in the final act in 1846 when Sir Robert Peel led the successful battle for repeal. However, its experience provided a model that was widely adopted in Britain and other democratic nations to demonstrate the organisation of a political pressure group with the popular base. Corn Laws The Corn Laws were taxes on imported grain i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1846 - Anti-Corn Law League Meeting
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Thomas Ballantyne (journalist)
Thomas Ballantyne (1806–1871), was a Scottish journalist. He was a native of Paisley, where he was born in 1806. Becoming editor of the '' Bolton Free Press'', he at an early period of his life took an active part in advocating social and political reforms. While editor of the ''Manchester Guardian'' he became intimately associated with Richard Cobden and John Bright in their agitation against the Corn Laws, and in 1841 he published the ''Corn Law Repealer's Handbook''. Along with Bright he was one of the four original proprietors of the ''Manchester Examiner'', his name appearing as the printer and publisher. After the fusion of the ''Examiner'' with the ''Times'', he became editor of the '' Liverpool Journal'', and later of the ''Mercury''. Subsequently he moved to London to edit the ''Leader'', and he was for a time associated with Charles Mackay in the editorial department of the ''Illustrated London News''. He also started the ''Statesman'', which he edited till its close, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberty Fund
Liberty Fund, Inc. is an American private educational foundation headquartered in Carmel, founded by Pierre F. Goodrich. Through publishing, conferences, and educational resources, the operating mandate of the Liberty Fund was set forth in an unpublished memo written by Goodrich "to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals".Morgan N. KnullGoodrich, Pierre, ''First Principles'', 09/23/11Robert T. Grimm (ed.), ''Notable American Philanthropists: Biographies of Giving and Volunteering'', Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, pp. 125–128 History Liberty Fund was founded by Pierre F. Goodrich in 1960. In 1997 it received an $80 million donation from Goodrich's wife, Enid, increasing its assets to over $300 million. In November 2015, it was announced that the Liberty Fund was building a $22 million headquarters in Carmel, Indiana. Liberty Fund has been cited by historian Donald T. Critchlow as one of the endowed conservative foundations which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Anthony Vince
Charles Anthony Vince (1855–1929) was an English academic, school head and author. He was a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. and Secretary of the National Liberal Union in 1892. Life He was born on 7 December 1855 at Handsworth, the son of Charles Vince; the classical scholar James Herbert Vince was his brother. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1874. He graduated B.A. in 1878, and M.A. in 1881. A Fellow at Christ's from 1880 to 1886, Vince became an assistant master at Repton School in 1878. He was appointed Head Master of Mill Hill School in 1886. When the Liberal Unionists split from Gladstone's Liberal party, Vince was in charge of Joseph Chamberlain's constituency organisation. He followed Chamberlain into the Liberal Unionist camp, becoming Secretary of the Birmingham Liberal Unionist Association, and leaving Mill Hill, in 1892. He later, in 1903, chaired the Birmingham Tariff Reform Committee, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Barnett Smith
George Barnett Smith (17 May 1841 – 2 January 1909) was an English author and journalist. Life Born at Ovenden, Yorkshire, on 17 May 1841, George Barnett Smith was the son of Titus and Mary Smith. He was educated at the British Lancastrian school in Halifax, then traveled to London where he worked as a journalist. From 1865 to 1868 Smith was on the editorial staff of '' The Globe'', and from 1868 to 1876 on that of ''The Echo''. He was subsequently a contributor to ''The Times''. With literary tastes and poetical ambition, Smith managed to become a contributor to the major magazines, among them the ''Edinburgh Review'', the ''Fortnightly Review'', and the ''Cornhill Magazine''. In 1889 lung trouble forced Smith to leave London for Bournemouth, and for the rest of his life he was an invalid. A Conservative government granted him a civil list pension in 1891, and a Liberal government increased it in 1906. Writing to the last, he died at Bournemouth on 2 January 1909, and was bur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorold Rogers
James Edwin Thorold Rogers (23 March 1823 – 14 October 1890), known as Thorold Rogers, was an English economist, historian and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1886. He deployed historical and statistical methods to analyse some of the key economic and social questions in Victorian England. As an advocate of free trade and social justice he distinguished himself from some others within the English Historical School. Background and formative years Rogers was born at West Meon, Hampshire the son of George Vining Rogers and his wife Mary Ann Blyth, daughter of John Blyth. He was educated at King's College London and Magdalen Hall, Oxford. After taking a first-class degree in 1846, he received his MA in 1849 from Magdalen and was ordained. A High Church man, he was curate of St. Paul's in Oxford, and acted voluntarily as assistant curate at Headington from 1854 to 1858, until his views changed and he turned to politics. Rogers was instrumental in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Prentice
Archibald Prentice (1792–1857) was a Scottish journalist, known as a radical reformer and temperance campaigner. Life The son of Archibald Prentice of Covington Mains in the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire, and Helen, daughter of John Stoddart of The Bank, a farm in the parish of Carnwath, he was born in November 1792. After a scanty education, he was apprenticed at age 12 to a baker in Edinburgh; but then the following summer (1805) to a woollen-draper in the Lawnmarket. Here he remained for three years, then moved to Glasgow as a clerk in the warehouse of Thomas Grahame, brother of James Grahame the poet. Two years later he was appointed traveller to the house in England, and in 1815 Grahame, acting on his advice, moved his business from Glasgow to Manchester, and at the same time brought Prentice into partnership in the firm. Journalism Prentice took an interest in politics, and contributed to '' Cowdroy's Gazette'', a weekly. In May 1821 the ''Manchester Guardian'' was founded as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Moore (journalist)
Frank Moore (1828–1904) was an American journalist and compiler, a brother of George Henry Moore. He was born in Concord, New Hampshire, but removed to New York City and became a journalist and general writer. In 1869-72 he was Assistant Secretary of Legation in Paris. He edited: * ''Songs and Ballads of the American Revolution'' (1856) * ''Cyclopedia of American Eloquence'' (1857) * ''Diary of the American Revolution'' (two volumes, 1860) * ''The Rebellion Record'' (twelve volumes, 1861-68), a collection of original material bearing on the Civil War * The Patriot Preachers of the American Revolution' (1862) * ''Lyrics of Loyalty'' (1864) * ''Songs of the Soldiers'' (New York: George P. Putnam, 1864) * ''Confederate Rhymes and Rhapsodies'' (1864) * ''Personal and Political Ballads'' (1864) * ''Speeches of Andrew Johnson'' (1865) * ''Life and Speeches of John Bright'' (1865) * ''Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War: North and South: 1860-1865'' (1866) * ''Women in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cato Institute
The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1977 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Koch Industries.Koch Industries is the second largest privately held company by revenue in the United States. Cato was established to have a focus on public advocacy, media exposure and societal influence. According to the ''2020 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report'' (Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania), Cato is number 27 in the "Top Think Tanks Worldwide" and number 13 in the "Top Think Tanks in the United States". The Cato Institute is libertarian in its political philosophy, and advocates a limited role for government in domestic and foreign affairs as well as a strong protection of civil liberties. This includes support for lowering or abolishing most taxes, opposition to the Federal Reserve system and the Affordable Care Act, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SAGE Publishing
SAGE Publishing, formerly SAGE Publications, is an American independent publishing company founded in 1965 in New York by Sara Miller McCune and now based in Newbury Park, California. It publishes more than 1,000 journals, more than 800 books a year, reference works and electronic products covering business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine. SAGE also owns and publishes under the imprints of Corwin Press (since 1990), CQ Press (since 2008), Learning Matters (since 2011), and Adam Matthew Digital (since 2012). History SAGE was founded in 1965 in New York City by Sara Miller (later Sara Miller McCune) with Macmillan Publishers executive George D. McCune as a mentor; the name of the company is an acronym formed from the first letters of their given names. SAGE relocated to Southern California in 1966, after Miller and McCune married; McCune left Macmillan to formally join the company at that time. Sara Miller McCune remained president for 18 years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Howe (historian)
Anthony C. Howe is an English historian and Professor of Modern History at the University of East Anglia, a post he has held since 2003. He has previously taught at the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Modern History at Oriel College, Oxford. Howe was educated at Cheltenham Grammar School, Wadham College, Oxford and was a postgraduate student at Nuffield College, Oxford. He is the editor of The Cobden Project, a four-volume set of annotated letters of the nineteenth century British politician Richard Cobden Richard Cobden (3 June 1804 – 2 April 1865) was an English Radical and Liberal politician, manufacturer, and a campaigner for free trade and peace. He was associated with the Anti-Corn Law League and the Cobden–Chevalier Treaty. As a young ..., published by Oxford University Press. Works *''The Cotton Masters, 1830-1860'' (Oxford, 1984). *‘Towards the ‘hungry forties’: free trade in Britain, ''c''. 1880-1906’, in Euge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meat Riots
The Meat riot (Spanish: ''Huelga de la carne''), in the Chilean capital Santiago in October 1905, was a violent riot that originated from a demonstration against the tariffs applied to the cattle imports from Argentina. Primeros movimientos sociales chileno (1890–1920)'. Memoria Chilena.Orlove, Benjamin S. 1997. "Meat and Strength: The Moral Economy of a Chilean Food Riot". ''Cultural Anthropology'', Vol. 12, Issue 2, pp. 234–268. Background The establishment of the Buenos Aires-Mendoza railroad in 1885 ended the lengthy and costly trade with carts that connected these two regions of Argentina and facilitated cattle exports from the pampas to Chile, albeit in the last portion of the route the cattle had to walk over the high mountain passes of the Andes. Lacoste, Pablo. 2004La vid y el vino en América del Sur: el desplazamiento de los polos vitivinícolas (siglos XVI al XX) ''Revista Universum'', 19, pp. 62–93. These imports resulted in a lowering of meat prices in Chile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
